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- “My child,” Zeus who marshals the thunderheads replied,
- “what nonsense you let slip through your teeth. Now,
- how on earth could I forget Odysseus? Great Odysseus
- who excels all men in wisdom, excels in offerings too
- he gives the immortal gods who rule the vaulting skies?
- No, it’s the Earth-Shaker, Poseidon, unappeased,
- forever fuming against him for the Cyclops
- whose giant eye he blinded: godlike Polyphemus,
- towering over all the Cyclops’ clans in power.
- The nymph Thoosa bore him, daughter of Phorcys,
- lord of the barren salt sea—she met Poseidon
- once in his vaulted caves and they made love.
- The Odyssey, Book 1, Translated by Robert Fagles.
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